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Speaker 1: it's Monday, the twenty second of September.

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Speaker 2: Dozey boy. Australia's unemployment rate has remained steady at four

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Speaker 2: point two percent, but the reason is actually because there

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Speaker 2: than twenty two thousand people last month. And you can

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Speaker 2: bet the RBA will be looking at this very closely

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Speaker 2: before making their big decision on the thirtieth of a September.

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Speaker 1: At fluxam you can guarantee that Flux will be there

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Speaker 1: covering the RBA cash rate on the thirtieth of September

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Speaker 1: from all angles and it is going to be a

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Speaker 1: very juicy decision by the RBA. So if you want

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Speaker 1: the latest on the RBA cash rate, make sure you've

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Speaker 1: downloaded the Flux app and ready to.

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Speaker 2: Go three sugary stories today, Juzzy boy, let's do it

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Speaker 2: for our first at Lassian has dropped a lazy one

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Speaker 2: billion US dollars to acquire US startup DX, which makes

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Speaker 2: it at Lassian's biggest acquisition ever.

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Speaker 1: Acquisition season for a Lassian be man so what is

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Speaker 1: going on here?

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Speaker 2: So at Lassian is the Aussie found software giant behind Jira,

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Speaker 2: Confluence and Trello.

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Speaker 1: The tech software that developers a love to hate.

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Speaker 2: It listed on the Nasdaq in December twenty fifteen and

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Speaker 2: has more than five times its market value since then.

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Speaker 1: Now, Beman, the other week we spoke about it Lassian

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Speaker 1: acquiring the Browser Company for nearly six hundred and ten

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Speaker 2: And now it's going one better because at Lassian is

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Speaker 2: acquiring DX, a five year old US start.

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Speaker 1: And what does DX do?

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Speaker 2: Exactly well in simple English Chazi boy, it helps companies

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Speaker 2: measure developer productivity and satisfaction.

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Speaker 1: And Biman, DX already has Dropbox and Pinterest and Blockers

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Speaker 1: customers who are also at Lassian clients.

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Speaker 2: Now, interestingly, at Lassian's Coto said that buying Dx was

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Speaker 2: a faster way to scale AI capabilities rather than building

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Speaker 2: it all in house.

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Speaker 1: And as we know, at Lasin is dead set on

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Speaker 1: building its AI capability and it wants to do it fast. Interesting,

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Speaker 1: So what is the key learning here? When a company

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Speaker 1: needs to level up? There are two main parts, organic

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Speaker 1: growth like building something valuable yourself, or inorganic growth which

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Speaker 1: is buying someone else now.

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Speaker 2: At Lassian's one billion US dollar deal for DX is

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Speaker 2: a classic case of choosing the latter, buying someone else's goodness.

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Speaker 1: Organic growth can often mean slower progress, but it often

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Speaker 1: leads to deeper integration into the culture and the products.

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Speaker 1: Inorganic growth can accelerate time to market and add instant

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Speaker 1: expertise and potentially even bring in a ready made customer base. Yep.

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Speaker 2: Alassian admitted dx's dashboards were better than what it could

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Speaker 2: have built quickly, but be man.

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Speaker 1: It seems, though, what Lacian is doubling down on inorganic

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Speaker 1: growth to stay competitive in the AI space. YEP.

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Speaker 2: At Lassians share price is down twenty nine percent just

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Speaker 1: And they've wrapped up three and a half billion US

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Speaker 1: dollars in cumulative losses since they listed.

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Speaker 2: So building this from scratch would mean a whole lot

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Speaker 1: At Lassian doesn't have time on its side to impress

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Speaker 1: customers and investors right now.

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Speaker 2: For our second story, in Nvidia is investing five billion

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Speaker 2: US dollars into its longtime rival Intel and will now

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Speaker 2: flip a decades long rivalry into a collaboration tables.

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Speaker 1: Have officially been termed b Man, So tell.

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Speaker 2: Me more, well, Jazzy boy, We've spoken a lot about

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Speaker 2: the rapid growth of Invidia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gone from designing GPU chips for gaming devices

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Speaker 1: to the world's most valuable chip maker, and not.

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Speaker 2: Just most valuable AI chip maker. We'd be talking the

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Speaker 2: world's most valuable company, worth over four trillion US dollars.

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Speaker 1: I get this, be Man. As recently as twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: Intel's revenue was double in videos. But now in Video

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Speaker 1: makes more per quarter than Intel does in a whole year.

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Speaker 2: And now in Video will invest five billion US dollars

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Speaker 1: This will give in Video just below a five percent

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Speaker 1: steak in its new frenemy.

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Speaker 2: Yep, the two companies will co develop chips for PCs

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Speaker 1: A little bit of scratch my back end, I'll scratch yours. Yep.

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Speaker 2: A few minutes later, Intel shares jumped as much as

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Speaker 2: twenty six percent when this news broke, And be.

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Speaker 1: Man, it is a rare wind for Intel, who's been

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Speaker 1: losing ground to AMD and in Video and TSMC as well.

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Speaker 2: So what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes enemies become teammates when survival is on the line.

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Speaker 2: For decades, Intel looked down on in Video as a

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Speaker 2: niche player for those gaming nerves. But in Video's dominance

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Speaker 2: in AI has flipped the power balance of big time.

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Speaker 1: And now Intel is swallowing its pride and teaming up

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Speaker 2: Because between them they dominate in GPUs and CPUs, which

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Speaker 1: In fact, they men in Video had a ninety two

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Speaker 2: With AMD second and then Intel.

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Speaker 1: But Intel still has dominance and scale in CPUs and

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Speaker 2: So while the tables have officially turned, it seems like

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Speaker 2: this partnership gives Intel a last chance to become the

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Speaker 2: big dog chip player that it wants to be.

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Speaker 1: Yep. For our third and final story, chocoholics may finally

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Speaker 1: be catching a break because cocoa prices have started to

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Speaker 1: fall after their all time highs in late last year.

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Speaker 2: Genuinely taking out a mortgage for a block of old

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Speaker 2: gold almond, Duzzy Boy tell me more.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So, coco is the core ingredient in chocolate for

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Speaker 1: many of our favorite brands. We'd be talking your Cadburys,

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Speaker 1: You're Wittakers, your Linz, your Old Goals. Yep.

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Speaker 2: And sixty percent of the world's cocoa supply it comes

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Speaker 1: We're talking Ivory Coast and Ghana being the two main countries.

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Speaker 2: Now a little bit of context for you, Jusey boy.

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Speaker 2: In the middle of twenty twenty two, the price of

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Speaker 2: coca was about two thy three hundred US dollars per ton.

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Speaker 1: But beman then came unusually heavy rain in West Africa.

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Speaker 2: And also an outbreak of a cocoa pod disease when

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Speaker 2: it rains a pause uh huh. So by late twenty

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Speaker 1: Or five times the price of coco from mid twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Two, And of course, Jasey boy, these prices then flow

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Speaker 2: onto us as consumers of the chocky delicacy.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is that cocoa prices have officially

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Speaker 2: We're talking to better weather in Ivory Coast and growing

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Speaker 2: production in Ecuador, all boosting supply.

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Speaker 1: But also the demand for chocolate has actually suffered, not

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Speaker 1: in my household, so be man. Hopefully given the drop

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Speaker 1: in commodity prices of cocoa, the price of chocolate box

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Speaker 1: will be coming down too.

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Speaker 2: Be called juzzy boy. So what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 1: With supply shocks collide with growing demand, prices can often skyrocket.

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Speaker 2: And for coco this means it's followed straight into your

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Speaker 1: In fact, man Man, a standard one hundred and eighty

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Speaker 2: You see, prices of commodities like cocoa are driven by

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Speaker 2: a tug of war between supply shocks and of course,

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Speaker 2: changes in demand. The challenge is that agriculture crops can

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Speaker 2: take years to grow, so supply can't instantly service demand.

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Speaker 1: But the other challenge is that once customers have adjusted

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Speaker 1: to a new price of chocolate, brands don't want to

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Speaker 2: So while coco market is easing juzzy Boy, we may

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Speaker 2: not get the same sweet relief at the checkout, But.

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